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Court Lodge Lower Rochester Road Wainscott Rochester Medway ME3 8EH

MC/23/1835Full ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 11 June 2024

Council decision: Approval with ConditionsPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolition of a garage and the construction of 8 no. dwellings and a car port, as well as associated works including landscaping, amendments and relocation to access, erection of bin and bike stores and creation of internal roads.

Received
16 August 2023
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
16
Ward
Strood Rural
Agent
DHA Planning
  1. Received16 Aug
  2. Validated22 Aug
  3. Consult.14 Sep
  4. Target12 Jun
  5. Decided11 Jun

Decided in 294 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Court Lodge Lower Rochester Road Wainscott Rochester Medway ME3 8EH. Medway has handled 2,531 applications of this type. This one was decided in 300 days, 35 weeks longer than Medway's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 111 applications across Strood Rural. We hold 1,082 applications in total for the ME3 postcode area.

89% of full applications at Medway Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
ME3 8EH
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Frindsbury Extra

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 August 2023
Consultation expiry
3 October 2023
Consultation start
23 August 2023
Consultation end
14 September 2023
Neighbour consultation start
12 September 2023
Neighbour consultation end
3 October 2023
Last date for comments
3 October 2023
Target decision date
12 June 2024
Committee meeting
5 June 2024
Permission expires
11 June 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent
DHA Planning
Agent address
DHA Planning, Eclipse House Eclipse Park Sittingbourne Road Maidstone ME143EN

Planning decision

Statutory period
295 days

Publicity

Site notice start
23 August 2023
Site notice end
14 September 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12389706
Documents
25
Constraints
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    18 Jun

    Variation of condition 2 on MC/23/1835

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)MC/26/1164
  2. 2023
    16 Aug

    Demolition of a garage and the construction of 8 no. dwellings and a car port, as well as associated works…

    This applicationApproval with ConditionsFullMC/23/1835

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